WS 2005/2006                      Preuß Texterschließung                  Text 10   word list 

1) to make one’s mark on (the literary scene)

2) to adopt (certain) tactics and topics

3) to insulate against

4) overt ↔ covert

5) effrontery: Frechheit [see below!]

6) female conduct

7) [as] the object of their moral concern

8) safely [here]

9) without being thought

10) to poach

11) (the male) preserves (of)

12) power politics

13) trenchant social criticism

14) romance                                                                                   romance:

15) consequently                                                                           A) a book or film dealing with love in a sentimental or idealized way

16) to figure as … in                                                                           light historical romances            

17) major motif                                                                              B) [here] a genre of fiction dealing with love in such a way:       

18) women established for themselves                                                   wartime passion from the master of romance    

19) (a) distinctive (place)                                                                                                    

20) appealing to                                                                                                                       

21) (a growing number of) bourgeois literate women                                                                                

22) (who) found reflections

22) (in) women’s writing

23) fabric and fantasies [cf. word list 4, #16]

24) of their own lives

25) forceful(ly) [here]

26) to reveal

27) dissident [here adj.]

28) underlying themes

29) perceptive(ly)

30) reading public

31) while yet registering

32) journal

33) the extent of their alienation from

34) popular images of

35) (female) propriety

36) to demonstrate      show

37) (female) province [cf. word list 6, #11]

38) women’s writing for publication

39) (was most carefully) stage-managed

40) a major literary undertaking

41) blandness [cf. word list 2, #17]

Duden (Band 8, 2000): Frechheit: Unverschämtheit, Dreistigkeit, Arroganz, Impertinenz, Insolenz, Vorwitz, , 
                                                         Ungezogenheit, Chuzpe, Unverfrorenheit, Kaltschnäuzigkeit

Wahrig/dtv (2003): Frechheit: Impertinenz, Bodenlosigkeit, Chuzpe Unverschämtheit, Zumutung, Ungezogenheit

Langenscheidt, Großwörterbuch: effrontery: Frechheit, Unverschämtheit

                                                   propriety: Schicklichkeit, Anstand  pl. Anstandsformen, - regeln, gute Sitten,

                                                                        Angemessenheit, Richtigkeit

Pons (Klett/Collins), Großwörterbuch: effrontery: Unverfrorenheit, Unverschämtheit

                                                            propriety: Anstand, Richtigkeit

www.leo.org  effrontery: Frechheit, Unverfrorenheit, Unverschämtheit

                       propriety: Anstand, Anständigkeit, Korrektheit, Schicklichkeit

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